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Old 10-09-2011, 03:32 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
Hmm - not always, I imported a collection of "found" books" that appear to have come from a calibre collection ( because of how the book folders are structured)

I did this via Add books

they have may/June dates in my calibre library, even though I added them yesterday ???
That is due to the fact that they were added to calibre in may/june and the metadata.opf files that were lying around the same folders as the books were used to add then to your library.

If this date bothers you then you have a few of options:

1. Stop adding "found" books to your library.
2. Delete the metadata.opf files prior to adding the books. The metadata.opf file is for calibre use only and is used to restore books to the library after being saved to disk or used to restore a corrupt metadata.db in the calibre library.
3. If you know that the date is not going to reflect your library you can do a bulk metadata edit after adding the books and change the date to reflect the date you added them to your library.
4. Add the books one at a time via drag and drop from the file manager to the calibre library.

Bottom line is the date column is the date when the books were added to a calibre library, if you add books from someone else' library, with the data from that library, of course the date is going to reflect when they were added to that other person's library.

Last edited by DoctorOhh; 10-09-2011 at 03:37 AM.
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